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Sir David Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel of the same name written by Bernhard Schlink.

In the West End, he had his greatest success with the plays Plenty, which he adapted into a film starring Meryl Streep in 1985, Racing Demon , Skylight , and Amy's View . The four plays ran on Broadway in 1982–83, 1996, 1998 and 1999 respectively, earning Hare three Tony Award nominations for Best Play for the first three and two Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. Other notable projects on stage include A Map of the World, Pravda, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War and The Vertical Hour. He wrote screenplays for films including The Hours and The Reader and the BBC dramas Page Eight and Collateral .

In addition to his two Academy Award nominations, Hare has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, three Tony Award nominations and has won a BAFTA Award, a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and two Laurence Olivier Awards. He has also been awarded several critics' awards such as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and received the Golden Bear in 1985. He was knighted in 1998. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. June 1947
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David Hare: 17 quotes1 like

Famous David Hare Quotes

“None but a fool is always right.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 445.
Misattributed

“Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 143.
Misattributed

“Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 563.
Misattributed

“In oratory the will must predominate.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 97.
Misattributed

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 159.
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“To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 7.
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David Hare Quotes

“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.”

David Hare

A Map of the World (1982), cited from Carol Homden, The Plays of David Hare (1995), p. 124.

“Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 296.
Misattributed

“Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 180.
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“The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 459.
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“Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 526.
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“Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, and yet both actively working together.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 7.
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“The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 1.
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“Smiles are the language of love.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 249.
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“A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides – when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) pp. 209-10.
Misattributed

“Children always turn toward the light.”

David Hare

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 159.
Misattributed

“The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.”

David Hare

"The Playwright as Historian", Sunday Times Magazine, November 26, 1978.

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